Dr Laura Premack helps people live with purpose and ease. She works with clients one-to-one and in groups, creating spaces of solidarity, trust and transformation. The coaching Laura offers is a unique mix of heart and head, intuition and logic, creativity and practicality.
Laura’s background combines academic and real-world experience. She holds a PhD and MA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an EdM from Harvard University, and a BA from Wesleyan University; she’s held permanent academic posts at Lancaster University and Keene State College; she’s been a postdoctoral fellow and visiting researcher at Bowdoin College, University College Ibadan, and the State University of Rio de Janeiro; and she’s been awarded grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the US Department of State, the US Department of Education, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
Laura has also waited tables in the Hamptons, taught school in San Francisco and Phoenix, led wilderness trips in Utah and Colorado, run mountain huts in New Hampshire, studied horticulture in the Lake District, been a Zen student in California, and taught herself to handweave with the support of Arts Council England. A serious writer, she is finishing her debut work of creative nonfiction, which will be published by Elliot & Thompson in 2026.
All of Laura’s endeavours are grounded in her strong yoga and meditation practice. Laura is a certified mindfulness meditation teacher (MMTCP) and has practiced yoga since 1995 and Buddhist meditation (Zen and vipassana) since 2005. She has spent time at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, Insight Meditation Society, Chapel Hill Zen Center, Southern Dharma, and Gaia House in study and silent retreat.
Originally from New England, Laura currently lives with her husband, two children, and big white dog in the northwest corner of England, where she gardens, walks, and mountain bikes when it’s not raining, and sometimes when it is.